Exascale supercomputers amp up science, finally growing dolomite in the lab, and origins of patriarchy

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🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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A leap in supercomputing is a leap for science, cracking the dolomite problem, and a book on where patriarchy came from First up on this week’s show, bigger supercomputers help make superscience. Staff Writer Robert F. Service joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how the first exascale computer is enabling big leaps in scientists’ models of the world. Next, producer Meagan Cantwell talks with the University of Michigan’s Wenhao Sun, professor of materials science and engineering, and graduate student Joonsoo Kim. They discuss solving the centuries-old problem of growing the common mineral dolomite in the lab. Finally, books host Angela Saini is back but this time she’s in the hot seat talking about her own book, The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality. Science Books Editor Valerie Thompson and host Sarah Crespi chat with Angela about what history, archaeology, and biology reveal about where and when patriarchy started. See our whole series of books podcasts on sex, gender, and science. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Valerie Thompson; Angela Saini; Robert Service Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn0660 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Morgan State University, a Baltimore, Maryland Carnegie R2 doctoral research institution,
0:05.0	offers more than 100 academic programs and awards degrees at the Bacclureate, Masters, and Doctoral
0:11.4	Levels, is furthering their mission of growing the future leading the world.
0:16.0	Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.
0:20.0	With a four-year quadrupling
0:22.3	of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs, and eight new National Centers of Excellence,
0:28.4	Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1 designation in the next five years. To learn more about
0:34.5	Morgan and their ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu slash research.
0:40.4	This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools.
0:48.0	Icon Mount Sinai is the academic arm of the eight hospital Mount Sinai health system in New York City.
0:55.9	It's consistently among the top recipients of NIH funding. Researchers at ICONMount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in many
1:02.1	fields vital to advancing the health of patients, including cancer, COVID and long COVID,
1:08.7	cardiology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.
1:12.5	The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way.
1:22.1	This is the science podcast for November 24th, 2023. I'm Sarah Crespi. First up this week, amped up supercomputers
1:30.8	help make super science. Staff writer Bob Service joins me to discuss how exascale computers,
1:37.1	capable of a quintillion calculations per second, are enabling big leaps in how scientists
1:43.0	are able to model the world. Next, solving the
1:46.6	dolomite problem. Producer Megan Cantwell talks with researchers Jun Su Kim and Wenhouse Sun
1:52.9	about what it took to finally grow this common mineral in the lab. Finally, books host Angela Saney
2:00.0	is back. This time she's in the hot seat, talking books host Angela Saney is back.
2:02.4	This time, she's in the hot seat,
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